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July 5, 2025 - Quote for the Day:
“Sadly, many within Christendom see ‘God’s justice’ through the prism of human experience and limitations. They attribute human definitions and desires to God. God’s justice conforms, as they perceive it, to their own sense and definition of justice…
Christ-less religion places the focus on the need for humans to reimburse and repay, to compensate and remunerate for damages inflicts whereas the grace of God we find in Christ-centered faith is all about forgiveness – writing off the debt – as Jesus ...
God Or Country?
Which kingdom truly encourages and enables us to love our neighbors as ourselves — kingdoms of our world or the kingdom of heaven?
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"God or Country?"
Which kingdom truly encourages and enables us to love our neighbors as ourselves — kingdoms of our world or the kingdom of heaven?
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Always Obey Governing Authorities?
Since Christ-followers hold dual citizenship, what happens when civil authorities seem to cross the line, imposing or demanding un-Christ like action?
Christ Our Encouragement – by Ed Dunn
The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners and recovery of sight for the blind, to set the oppressed free, to proclaim the Lord’s favor (Luke 4:18-19, NIV)
From the first words spoken at the beginning of his earthly ministry, Jesus gave those listening to him direct and unmistakable encouragement. Jesus boldly announced that he had been sent to give good news, freedom, recovery of sight, the end of oppression and divine favor to those who needed encouragement ...
God and Caesar
When Jesus was asked a trick question, he responded with timeless wisdom about the nature of the kingdom of heaven and the kingdoms of this world.
Reflections Along the Jesus Way
July 2, 2025 - Quote for the Day:
“One of the major lessons of the book of Revelation is that religion and the state often combine as enemies of the true gospel, so much so that Revelation 18:4 calls to the people of God, who follow Christ alone, to Come out of her, my people.
The book of Revelation provides a warning and chronicle of what happens when those who profess Christ jump into bed with either Christ-less religion or the idolatry of Caesar worship – the worship of a nationalistic human empire – or a combination of both. Just as there have ...
Damaging Legalistic Religion – Jim Fowler
Many have had experiences in rule-based, legalistic religion that casts everything into arbitrary right or wrong categories. Such believe-right, do-right religion can leave a person with a damaged psyche of perfectionist moralism that affects their personality and operational perspectives. The authoritative and judgmental orientation of such religion often leaves a person with an elitist attitude of thinking they know everything and everyone else should conform to what they believe. They judgmentally view and accept others based on their conformity to their belief-s...
Q&R with Brad Jersak – “C.S.I. Jerusalem: Who killed Ananias & Sapphira?”
Question:
Dear Brad,
I have read your book, A More Christlike God, and I am on board wholeheartedly, knowing that we are still learning every day. I have given your book to a friend whose worldview has shifted dramatically. Yesterday he asked me, “What shall I make of Ananias and Sapphira (Acts 5:1-11) in light of the "unwrathing" chapters in Brad's book?” It is a problematic text. Where have you landed on this one? Thanks for all you do … Faithfully reading your CWR blogs.
Response:
Because of my conviction that Christ revealed that our Abba ...
Reflections Along the Jesus Way
July 1, 2025 - Quote for the Day:
“Many Christians are missing the point of Revelation because they’re reading it as though it were a newspaper, with verses lined up and seemingly corresponding to an event in today’s news, or the news they’ve been told will almost certainly be printed in the newspaper in the next month or next year.
Reading the book of Revelation as if it were an advance copy of next week’s or next month’s newspaper has resulted in many people losing faith in God when world events don’t work out the way they were told they ...
Whose Side is God On?
Is there any place in the kingdom of heaven for human partisanship and sectarianism? Join us for fresh insights about our citizenship in the kingdom of heaven.
Everlasting Grace—How Expansive Is God’s Love? – Steve Orr
This question is posed in a pop music hit by the Bee Gees, which is among the top 500 greatest contemporary songs.
Despite the pop culture overtones, this is a serious question. "How deep is your love, 'cause we're livin' in a world of fools, breakin' us down."
There are spiritual overtones: "I believe in you. You know the door to my very soul. You're the light in my deepest, darkest hour. You're my savior when I fall." "It's me you need to show, how deep is your love?"
To this I would like to ask another question: How deep is God's love?
I believe the ...
The Lost and the Found
The gospel often turns our expectations upside down — so that those who think they are religious found — who think they have it made — may actually be lost. And those who think that God has given up on them — there just might be hope.
Strategic Planning Update – Ed Dunn
This Month at PTM - July 2025:
Watch a short video and the message on "Strategic Planning Update for PTM" by Ed Dunn as he updates us on the latest from Christianity Without the Religion and Plain Truth Ministries.
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Forgiveness – A Wonder of His Love – by Greg Albrecht
Friend and Partner Letter from July 2025:
Of all the scenes I recall from “Forrest Gump” (one of the memorable movies I shall probably ever see), I will never forget the heartbreaking scene when Jenny, Forrest’s long-time girlfriend and finally, for a short time before she dies, his wife, returns home. She and Forrest are walking down a country road toward the house where Jenny lived when she was a little girl. When Jenny sees her old house it unleashes a tidal wave of toxic memories – a raging river of agonizing flashbacks, including the sexual abuse to ...
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"We Need a Bigger Boat"
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Many characterize their religious church or movement rowing away from the sinking ship of "the world". They are "saved" and the ship of this world is going down, and anyone not on board their lifeboat deserves to be lost.
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We hope that our articles and resources bring comfort, hope, encouragement, and healing to our readers. If you’re experiencing that, please subscribe freely, share freely, and, ...
Reflections Along the Jesus Way
June 28, 2025 - Quote for the Day:
“When I was a young boy my mother and I used to sit on my grandmother’s front porch, on North 8th Street in Herington, Kansas, looking into the summer sky. I never knew my father, since he was killed when I was only 15 months old, so my mother would tell me that my father was one of the stars twinkling up in the sky. So because my mother, the ultimate authority in my world at the time, told me so, I thought my father was ‘up there’ with God.
As I grew older I realized that my father was not a twinkling star ...
A Different Gospel
Are you hearing the “real thing”? There’s only one gospel of Jesus Christ. All other gospels are pretenders and imposters. As Paul says, “a different gospel … is really no gospel at all” (Galatians 1:6-7).
Q&R: Reading Biblical Threats – Brad Jersak
Question:
How do you read difficult passages in the Bible like "the weeping and gnashing of teeth" and the seemingly threatening passages in the Bible?
Response:
I believe it's always essential that we start with Jesus' revelation of God is infinite Love and that Jesus' heart is to restore all things and all people through his victory over satan, sin and death through his life, death, resurrection, and ascension. The apostle Paul then anticipates Jesus' end game: the summing up of everyone in Jesus (Ephesians 1) and the final outcome where every knee ...
Hijacking Christianity
Religious legalism may seem to have the same external signs as authentic Christianity, but it’s going a different direction. A hijacked plane still has all of the external signage outside that identifies it as an airline with a commendable mission — but internally, a different mission is being planned. There is more to real Christianity than meets the eye.
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